How course material should be prepared for children

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We can take the cue from the NCERT, how not to prepare the course material. I have seen geography books of NCERT. In the sixth and seventh standard they teach children about Europe, America, Australia, the Middle East, the Far East and Africa. In the eighth standard they have included India.

I donâ€™t know who prepared this course material for children. They have shown total disregard for the basics of education. It seems none of them are aware of the psyche of the children or what the educationalists say on this matter. Read the thoughts of any eminent educationalist. They all say that a child should be first taught about his surroundings then he can read about far flung places. A child is always interested in his immediate surroundings. He is curious to know about the flora and fauna of his place. You can show him the river flowing in his area or the type of soil found near his school. But here NCERT WANTS the child to know first that cassava is grown in Africa then what is the staple crop of India. Till becoming an adult, he doesnâ€™t have an inkling of what cassava looks like. I just bow to the super intelligence of our current eminent educationalists, who frame the education policy for the â€œfutureâ€? of India.

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5 responses to “How course material should be prepared for children”

8/31/2006

Nilesh

“I just bow to the super intelligence of our current eminent educationalists, who frame the education policy for the â€œfutureâ€? of India.”

he he… 🙂
8/31/2006

prancer

Alka ji this issue needs immediate attention from the so-called thinkers of our nation…it also needs correction at the earliest because already a lot of damage has occurred…not more…keep the issues flowing…we at MUSA are keeping a tab of what needs to be done…we are not showing action because we are yet not in a state to do anything as such…but please do keep up your work of enlightening us about the ills that plague INDIA…we are grateful to you for your concern and we do acknowledge your efforts in this regard…thank you…god bless you…”JAI HIND”
9/1/2006

Paavani

Still NCERT books are supposed to be good.
Fine, they are talking about world first then coming to India.
Again depend to how much in depth. Just touching the topic or elabortaing.
9/1/2006

Alka

Nilesh, do you blog? If yes, please leave a link at my blog. Thank you for visiting and commenting.

Prancer, thank you so much for encouragement. Can you tell me what MUSA stands for? What are the objectives? I think you are doing a lot in your field. Hats off to you.

Paavani,Ask any student, he/she will always answer that they never study from NCERT textbooks. They always study from side books. And forget about in-depth knowledge. Teaching a child , world history first means introducing a newborn child to neighbors first and then to parents. Every single educationalist in the world agrees, that a child should be thought about his surroundings first.
12/18/2007

Alex

Alka,

“He is curious to know about the flora and fauna of his place. You can show him the river flowing in his area or the type of soil found near his school.”

🙂

You have made a very significant statement here. These are things which needs to be taught. But in my textbooks i remember such activities being mentioned at the end of some chapters.

But since the onus on the teachers is to display high marks in the examinations, the activities are seldom read. Such activities do not interest the student nor the teacher as it does not provide them with ‘marks’.